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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?
(a) To consider practicing as a minister once again
(b) To talk to Christmas about the murder of Miss Burden
(c) To bring his medical book to the cabin and deliver Lena's baby
(d) To lend him enough money to leave town

2. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?
(a) Because she is too eccentric
(b) Because she never married
(c) Because she associates with Negroes
(d) Because she is more intelligent than any of them

3. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To lead the church choir
(b) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(c) To teach Sunday School
(d) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church

4. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?
(a) "a real back breaker"
(b) "nigger's work"
(c) "boring"
(d) "too damn hard"

5. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?
(a) Because she lost her job.
(b) Because she does not like anybody there.
(c) Because it will soon be a ghost town.
(d) Because she was evicted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the intention of the four boys?

2. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.

3. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?

4. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

5. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?

(see the answer key)

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